From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: Robert Szentmihalyi <robert.szentmihalyi@entracom.de>
Cc: Sean Elble <S_Elble@yahoo.com>, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>,
Brian <hiryuu@envisiongames.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File server FS?
Date: 14 Nov 2001 09:10:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1005750618.23586.14.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200111141142227.SM00162@there>
In-Reply-To: <200111132203.fADM3jW03006@demai05.mw.mediaone.net> <20011113175348.B24864@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> <028201c16cb0$f489ccc0$0a00a8c0@intranet.mp3s.com> <200111141142227.SM00162@there>
On Wed, 2001-11-14 at 04:41, Robert Szentmihalyi wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2001 03:05 schrieb Sean Elble:
> > I'd have to recommend XFS for you . . . it supports the kernel
> > mode NFS server very well, it supports LVM, an XFS file system
> > can be enlarged (not reduced), and XFS has great quota support,
> > just be sure you use a 3.0 or greater quota tools package. Why
> > use XFS over Ext3 you ask? XFS is faster, and scales better,
> > IMHO. Again just my opinion, but I hope that helps.
> >
>
> ACK.
> We have built an 800 GB file server for a customer about three
> month ago using XFS on a 3ware RAID.
> The server performs great, even under heay load.
> The only drawback is that group quotas were not yet supported then.
> I don't know if this has changed yet, but it should be fairly easy
> to find out..... :-)
>
> cheers,
> Robert
>
XFS on linux has had group quota support for quite a while - certainly
longer than 3 months. All the other features are available too.
Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-14 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-13 22:03 Brian
2001-11-14 1:53 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-14 2:05 ` Sean Elble
2001-11-14 10:41 ` Robert Szentmihalyi
2001-11-14 15:10 ` Steve Lord [this message]
2001-11-14 16:09 ` Robert Szentmihalyi
2001-11-17 18:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-11-17 21:55 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17 22:10 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-17 22:23 ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-17 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-17 22:38 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-18 1:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-11-17 22:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-16 10:19 ` Pavel Machek
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